"I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door."

-- Billy Collins

#Notebook Quotes #Writing Quotes #Doors Quotes

“There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.”
“We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.”
“I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.”
“While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks the ambition to truly meet the challenge. The next step is to move aggressively toward a transition to 100% clean renewable energy as quickly as possible (that means no fossil fuels, nuclear, or big hydro).”
“Ideas are abundant. Practice giving your ideas away. If you hold onto ideas too tightly, you can convince people (and yourself) that you may not come up with any new ones”
“All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful. . . .”
“The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.”
“History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.”

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